A1117 crash in East Suffolk on 12 December 2007 at 09:01 involving a Ford Focus
Two Ford Focus cars were involved in a crash on the A1117 in East Suffolk at 09:01 on Wednesday 12 December 2007. The 27-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 25-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2007
- Wednesday, 09:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50555, longitude 1.72313, in the NR32 postcode district. The location was in the former Waveney district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200737L015056
- Council area
- East Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1117
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the B1375 in East Suffolk, 2 August 2006
28 m awayRef 200637L013192
Serious
Car crash on the A1117 in East Suffolk, 14 November 1987
41 m awayRef 1987372129600
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B1375 in East Suffolk, 20 December 2012
41 m awayRef 201237EA68688
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A1117 in East Suffolk, 21 August 1993
42 m awayRef 1993372103120
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B1375 in East Suffolk, 9 January 2011
63 m awayRef 2011370003911
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A1117 in East Suffolk, 7 July 1992
81 m awayRef 1992372130400
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200737L015056 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Suffolk road accident statistics for 2007.